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This industry hasn't changed much over the years... Many jobs have been radically altered with the rise of industrialization and automation... But debt collection is still carried out using archaic methods. In an industry that has refused to embrace technology, a great deal of collections are still carried out by calling up debtors and threatening […]
A poker-playing chess devotee has neared 90% gains after a $1.8 billion loss... In 2008, financial-services firm Deutsche Bank (DB) was preparing to spin off a division for its most successful trader. As we mentioned in the March 31 Altimetry Daily Authority, Boaz Weinstein had spent the previous decade making high-powered trades for the bank... […]
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Senior management's job is to understand its business' risk-taking strategy... Many of our readers are business owners, in senior management, or even potentially retired and investing in or advising businesses. As such, they need to understand that the main job they have is to take on risk and oversee risk-taking. Otherwise, companies won't grow... and […]
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When the economy moves as fast as it has over the past three months, waiting for official data isn't an option... Traditionally, economists use metrics such as the unemployment rate, GDP, and inflation to measure economic activity. However, when listening to investors, journalists, or even central bankers, different measures are being rolled out to help […]
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A law of procrastination applies to the 'At-Home Revolution'... We've all experienced this law by British naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Spoken in plain English, everyone procrastinates. Parkinson originally wrote this law to talk about the unique problems in attempting to streamline government […]
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When someone explains how big the universe is, numbers start to become meaningless... It's just too hard for us to wrap our minds around it. The Milky Way is 105,700 light-years wide. That's 6.2137 x 10^17 miles (meaning, move the decimal place over 17 spots...). If we had undertook the interstellar spacecraft mission Project Longshot […]
If the product of the future can exist, it must be measurable... When the media industry first emerged, newspapers were the only source of information for the average citizen. As newspaper companies began to grow and further monetize, the publishers had an easy way of tracking their viewership. By measuring subscriptions and newsstand sales, newspaper […]
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The real estate market has permanently shifted, and not just for business... The shelter-in-place orders have led to vastly different experiences for folks across the country. For those who live in outdoor meccas – such as Boulder, Colorado – their experience is distinct from those living in major urban areas. Residents of a city like […]
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A popular investing metric is broken... Investors commonly use the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio to quickly understand a company's valuation. The same can be done for the benchmark S&P 500 or any other index to understand how cheap or expensive the entire stock market is. In the March 23 Altimetry Daily Authority, we talked about economist […]
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It's the one ingredient needed for a long-term recession... Back in September, before anyone had heard of social distancing and when the news cycle was dominated by the trade war, we discussed the conditions for a recession. While the world has changed over the past 10 months, our position has not. Major recessions are always […]
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